... in a relatively large
circle, so Newt had to cut through a great deal of ice. The whole
time, Minerva seemed utterly oblivious as Newt's sub rotated through
the waters, melting through the ice and sending up a large fog into
the air from the heat until the ice itself started to tremble.Newt smiled as he
watched Minerva spinning in mid-air, then doing one of the largest
sliding-jumps he'd ever seen and landing back in the first section of
the pond again, which had frozen up again into a single solid
surface. Newt stared in awe at how quickly and easily she'd escaped
him as the huge slab of ice above his sub came down, squashing the
entire submarine most painfully.-----Newt had decided that
he was done playing nice and just piled a whole bunch of explosives
around the whole pond. There wasn't any doubt in his mind that the
explosives would blow every bit of ice in the pond to pieces, which
would be most effective in sinking Minerva for certain. Quickly, he
attached the long chain of explosives to a plunger, and then pushed
it down, and a massive, fiery blast shook the woods.However, as the
explosion died down, Newt was shocked and dismayed to find that there
wasn't a single crack in the ice. Then, suddenly, there was a
trembling in the earth as fog began to appear above the pond, and
cracks in the ground. Then, in a moment more, the ground ...